Police officers ‘executed in cold blood’ during gunfight at remote Australian house

Six were left dead during the hours-long siege, after officers attended the home in relation to a missing person

Six people died, including two police officers in their twenties, when a routine missing persons investigation turned into an hours-long siege at a remote Australian property, police said Tuesday.

Four officers arrived at a tree-lined property near the small town of Wieambilla late Monday afternoon.

“As soon as they entered the property, they were inundated with gunfire,” said Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers, “they never had a chance.”

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ISIS terrorist Neil Prakash charged, extradited to Victoria

A Melbourne man accused of being an Islamic State terrorist has been extradited to Victoria.

Neil Prakash, 31, was also charged with six offences including engaging in hostile activity in a foreign state, being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering or remaining in a declared area.

Footage released by Australian Federal Police (AFP) shows Prakash being escorted onto a late night flight from Darwin to Melbourne. He was then bundled into a vehicle.

In Canada he’d be walking free among us.

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Diane Francis: Canada need only look to Australia to see how badly Liberals have messed up

Why can’t Canada be as smart and successful as Australia?

Exhibit A: In recent weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the suggestion that Canada could be a major supplier of liquefied natural gas to Germany, questioning the “business case.” Germany is wealthy, needs to replace Russian energy, and Canada has the third biggest reserves of natural gas on the planet.

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Australia’s beloved ‘ute’ faces the scrapheap in drive for cleaner cars

Australians love big cars. The bestselling model for the past six years has been the Toyota Hilux, a two-tonne pick-up truck with space to throw a surfboard in the back.

It weighs as much as two Vauxhall Corsas, with a 2.8-litre diesel engine that belches about twice as much carbon dioxide as Britain’s favourite car.

It is as popular among suburbanites on the school run as it is with farmers, tradesmen and surfers, as are numerous other “utes” — Australian slang for a two or four-door pick-up truck with an open cargo tray in the rear instead of a boot.

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The mystery deaths of two Saudi sisters in Sydney

On 7 June, Australian authorities knocked on the door of a Sydney apartment.

Mail was piled up outside the door, and the tenants hadn’t paid rent in more than three months.

Inside, they found two dead women – sisters from Saudi Arabia – whose bodies had laid undiscovered, in separate bedrooms, for weeks.

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Surprise – the Australian Great Barrier Reef has “Bounced Back” from Climate Change

The concern over the survival of the Great Barrier Reef is beyond absurd. Coral is one of the most resilient organisms on the planet.

While the adult form of coral is anchored in place, every year corals spawn uncountable billions of highly mobile larvae which colonise favourable sites. Any damaged reef is instantly colonised by adjacent reefs as soon as favourable conditions return.

h/t Mauser 98

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Saudi sisters found dead in Sydney told acquaintance queer women ‘live in fear’ in their homeland

Two Saudi sisters found dead in their beds in Sydney attended a girls-only queer event in January where they told acquaintances gay women “live in fear” in Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian understands New South Wales police are investigating whether one or both of the sisters may have feared being persecuted for their sexuality in their homeland, which they fled together in 2017 for Australia, where they made claims for asylum.

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Saudi sisters were ‘actively’ seeking asylum after they escaped to Australia before renouncing Islam – only to be found dead five years later

The two young Saudi sisters found dead in their beds were both seeking protection from the Australian government, it has been revealed, as more details about their attempts to build a normal life here emerged.

Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, each had an active claim for asylum in progress with the Department of Home Affairs, it has been confirmed.

They were found dead in their Canterbury unit in Sydney’s west on June 7 when police conducted a welfare check, with no visible signs of forced entry.

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Sudden Adult Death Syndrome baffles doctors

A strange new medical anomaly has doctors baffled as it sweeps across the country. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is on the rise, and it’s tragically claiming the lives of healthy young adults, sometimes in their sleep.

Essentially, people are dying without displaying any prior sign of illness. They simply do not wake up after going to bed, or collapse during the day.

Reports of SADS have been increasing in recent weeks. A news.com web piece explains that, ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome … is an umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people, usually under 40, when a post-mortem can find no obvious cause of death.’

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China accuses Australia and Canada of ‘disinformation’ over jet encounters

Beijing has accused Australia and Canada of “spreading disinformation” over allegedly dangerous manoeuvres by Chinese military pilots in international airspace.

China also warned Australia to stop “provocations” or face “serious consequences” after the Albanese government said a Chinese jet intercepted an RAAF plane in a dangerous manoeuvre in late May.

A day earlier Justin Trudeau hit out at “irresponsible and provocative” actions by Beijing’s air force after Canadian aircraft deployed in Japan narrowly avoided a collision with Chinese jets late last month.

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Academic Calls for Royal Commission Into Australia’s Totalitarian Response to COVID-19

Australians have turned up in massive numbers for the seventh time to protest the abuse of power inherent within the country’s totalitarian response to COVID-19.

Pro-freedom protesters took to the streets on Saturday demonstrating against unconstitutional vaccine mandates, and the continuing of “vax or the axe” government overreach, as well as the extension of “emergency powers” Premiers (mostly Labor) have lavished on themselves, using the Communist Chinese virus as the pretence for a power grab.

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Trudeau cabinet “penetrated” by World Economic Forum: Aussie senator

Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antic has blasted the World Economic Forum (WEF) for influencing world governments, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet.

Antic, who is a member of the conservative faction of the Liberal Party, accused the WEF and founder Klaus Schwab of being “steeped in authoritarianism and Marxist ideology.”

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US Deploying Thousands of Marines to Australia’s Northern Territory to Prepare For Possibility of War With China

As tensions rise between the United States and China, thousands of American soldiers are being sent to Australia in preparation for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

A rotational US Marine force of approximately 2,200 soldiers will be based in the Northern Territory through September. 1,000 Marines have already arrived in Darwin, where they will train with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to ensure preparedness for potential conflict/crises in the region.

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